CLAY
PREMIERE 22nd of January and shows at Black Box Teater (NO) until the 1st of February.
CLAY is theatre fiction that plays with your mind and ravages your senses. It takes you where you don’t want to go – into the dark, where the beautiful becomes grotesque and the grotesque becomes beautiful.
In 2022, Susie Wang made The Look in co-production with the National Theatre. Now the old performance has taken on new actors, new scenography, a new storyline and a new title: CLAY.
Clay remembers how it has been handled. When we touch it, we force the particles into new patterns. The clay seems to give in, but it never forgets. The new structures push against the old ones, and when the clay dries or is fired, the forms may stretch, twist, or even crack.
The story in CLAY bends and twists in new directions, but it begins the same way as before:
Maia, a ceramic artist, is teaching a sculpture class for tourists. She is pregnant, it is hot, and everything moves slowly. Suddenly she is attacked by a man with a rage that seems to come from nowhere. Maia fights back and knocks him unconscious. While he is out, she plants a terrible revenge deep inside him. When he wakes up, he is no longer himself. But clay never forgets, and as the performance unfolds, the revenge grows beyond all proportion.
As usual with Susie Wang, it's the body that takes the beating. The action moves from life to death and back again, freely shifting between the banal and the divine.
Credits
Concept: Susie Wang
Direction and text: Trine Falch
Performance: Mees Borgman, Julie Solberg, Mona Solhaug, Kim Atle Hansen & Phillip Isaksen
Music: Martine Langlie
Scenography: Bo Krister Wallström & Oscar Solløs
Lighting: Phillip Isaksen
Special effects: Fanney Antonsdottir
